Lesson 9
Topics for discussion
1 What did you do to celebrate the last New Year?
2 What other important days are there in the year? How do you celebrate them?
3 Have you, or a friend, ever been late because your watch had stopped? Tell us about it.
1 Introduce the story
Today we'll listen to a story about the last evening of the year in a small 2 Understand the situation
T：What do you think is happening in the picture?
3 Listening objective.What does 'A Cold Welcome' refer to?
4 read the story
5 Answer The clock did not strike at twelve because it had stopped.
6 Intensive reading
V oc
★welcome
①n. 欢迎 a cold welcome 冷遇
②v. 欢迎welcome to+地点
welcome to China；welcome to my home；welcome home；welcome back
③adj. 受欢迎的You are welcome. You are welcome to+地点
★crowd ①n. 人群
in the crowd 在人群中
I spotted him in the crowd. 我在人群中一眼就认出了他
a crowd of people 一群人，没有次序的人群, 拥挤的人群
a group of people 一群人，有次序的人群
②v.拥挤, 挤满 a large crowd of people 一大群人
★gather v. 聚集
①vt. 使集拢，集合，召集
He gathered a large crowd of people round him.
②vt 收集，采集，收（庄稼等）
The children are out in the field gathering flowers.
③vi. 集拢，聚集，集合
They gathered under the Town Hall clock.
people gathered 人们聚集在一起, 尤指自发性的聚集
★hand n. (表或机器的)指针；手
minute hand；second hand；hour hand
second hand 二手的，旧的，秒针
★refuse v. 拒绝
①vt. 拒绝（接受、服从等）She refused the gift.
②拒不，不肯，不愿John refused to change his mind.
★shout v. 喊叫
call out 大声喊叫
cry out 大声哭喊
7 Play the tape or read the story again
Comprehension questions
1 When did you go to the Town Hall? (On Wednesday evening.)
2 What was special about Wednesday? (It was the last day of the year.)
3 Was there a large crowd? (Yes, there was.)
4 Where had everyone gathered? (Under the Town Hall clock.)
5 When would it strike twelve? (At midnight.)
6 At what time did you arrive? (11.40.)
7 When did the clock stop? (11.55.)
8 Which hand did not move? (The minute hand.)
9 Did you wait for something to happen? (Yes, we did.)
10 What did someone shout suddenly? ('It's two minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!')
11 What did you do when you heard this? (I looked at my watch.)
12 What time did your watch say? (Two minutes past twelve.)
13 What time did the big clock say? (Five to twelve.)
14 It was already the New Year, wasn't it? (Yes, it was.)
15 What did the big clock refuse to do? (To welcome the New Year.)
16 Did everybody begin to laugh? (Yes, they did.)
Tell the story
1 Wednesday - went - Town Hall
2 last day - year - crowd - people - gathered-clock
3 strike twelve - twenty minutes'
4 Fifteen minutes - five to - stopped
5 minute hand - move
6 waited - nothing
7 Suddenly - shouted ‘two - twelve - clock-stopped’
8 looked - watch - true 9 big clock refused - Year
10 that moment - everyone - laugh - sing
★swallow v. 吞下
①v. 吞下，咽下
Tommy had swallowed the coins.
②v. 抑制，使不流露
I tried hard to swallow my doubts. 我强忍着不露出怀疑的神色。

She swallowed a smile and sat there still. 她忍住没笑，静静地坐在那里。

③v. 吞并；侵吞
Our company was swallowed up by an American company last year.
我们公司去年被一家美国公司吞并了。

Nazi Germany nearly swallowed up the whole Europe in World War II.
第二次世界大战中，纳粹德国几乎吞并了整个欧洲。

[语法]
过去进行时
概念:
1、在过去某个特定的时间正在进行或发生的动作。

2、当过去的一个动作发生的时候另外一个动作正在进行。

结构：
主语+ was（were）+ doing
S+ wasn’t（weren’t) +Ving
Was（Were）+S +Ving?
I was reading a book at 7 o’clock yesterday.
I wasn’t reading a book at 7 o’clock yesterday.
Were you reading a book at 7 o’clock yesterday?
What were you doing at 7 o’clock yesterday?
连接时间状语从句的词：when 当……的时候；while 当……的时候（强调两个动作的同时进行）
when和while大多数情况下可互换，当强调两个动作的同时进行和发生，只能用while。

just as 正当……
时间状语从句主句放前面，用连接词连接，时间状语从句放前面时，要用逗号隔开。

I was reading a book while my wife was working in the garden at two o’clock yesterday afternoon.
★ring v. 打电话；按铃
①v. 鸣响；发出清脆的响声
Yesterday morning, my alarm clock didn’t ring at 7 o’clock as usual.
When I was opening the from door, the telephone rang.
②v. 打电话；按铃
You said you were going to ring me last night, but you didn’t.
Somebody is ringing the doorbell.。